The figure of music in nineteenth-century British poetry
By: edited by Phyllis Weliver.
Contributors: Weliver, Phyllis.
Series: Music in nineteenth-century Britain
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Aldershot, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 266
Subjects: Music -- Great Britain -- 19th century -- History and criticism.; Music in literature.; Poetry -- Great Britain -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: Scotch drink & Irish harps: mediations of the national air / C. Langan; value: "Suspended" sense in Alastor: Shelley's musical trope and eighteenth-century medical discourse / K. Ogawa; value: On music framed: the Eolian harp in romantic writing / S. Bernstein; value: Music and inspiration in Blake's poetry / J. Hughes; value: "Music their larger soul": George Eliot's "the legend of jubal" and Victorian musicality / R.A. Solie; value: Musical reactions to Tennyson: reformulating musical imagery in "the lotos-eaters" / M. Allis; value: "Monna innominata" and Christina Rossetti's audible unhappiness / Yeo Wei Wei; value: The "silent song" of D.G. Rossetti's The house of life / P. Weliver; value: "The music spoke for us": music and sexuality in fin-de-siècle poetry / E. Sutton; value: Sappho recomposed: a song cycle by Granville and Helen Bantock / Y. Prins.